“it will need NATO”
Anyone who thinks NATO will show up in the Pacific when the SHTF is smoking crack.
They won’t. In spite of treaty.
None of them, excepting those who accidentally get caught there.
It will be the US, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Australia.
It depends on what you think war with Red China would be, a local war, or a massive war between Communist China and its allies against Western Civilization, the Philippines, Taiwan Australia, Japan, and possibly other Asian countries like Vietnam, and involving India and Pakistan.
War with Red China just might be an all-encompassing war fought until some major world issues are settled and China is set back for generations.
By the way, the way you cut out that artificial quote makes it sound like I said something that I didn’t.
The actual statement was “”However or whoever or whenever the West fights China, it will need NATO and the American military better prepared, and better armed, with a reinvigorated weapons-producing West and greater awareness and unity on military issues, and a lessened Russian threat.””